In response to my previous post about plagiarism, The Pakistani Spectator, to their credit reacted swiftly and firmly, not only removing the plagiarised post but also publicly apologising on their blog and banning the said author, namely Maher Nawaz Khan, from their contributing authors’ list. It takes some one brave to acknowledge their mistakes, so I appreciate the responsibility [...]
October 12, 2007
Categories: Blogging, Pakistan, World Wide Web, plagiarism/copyright . Tags: Blogging, blogs, cheating, crime, honesty, plagiarism, PTCL . Author: Zainub . Comments: 3 Comments
What is common between the Russian President Vladimir Putin, the famous American deaf and blind author cum activist Helen Keller and lead guitarist of The Beatles, George Harrison? They’ve all been accused of (and in at least two of these cases) successfully proven to have been guilty of plagiarism (see Wikipedia article on Plagiarism for [...]
October 11, 2007
Categories: Blogging, Pakistan, World Wide Web, plagiarism/copyright . Tags: Blogging, blogs, copyright, copyright infringment, crime, journalism, Pakistan, pakistani blogosphere, plagiarism, plagiarizing . Author: Zainub . Comments: 4 Comments